Title 16, Chapter 1, Section 2
( 16-1-2)
The general purposes of this title are: (1) To forbid and prevent conduct which unjustifiably and
inexcusably causes or threatens substantial harm to individual or
public interests; (2) To give fair warning of the nature of the conduct forbidden
and the sentence authorized upon conviction; (3) To define that which constitutes each crime; and (4) To prescribe penalties which are proportionate to the
seriousness of crimes and which permit recognition of differences
in rehabilitation possibilities among individual criminals. |